Tracy Letts
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I think there's another way to read it, which is that Vito sends him out and says, take care of it.
And John Marley says, oh!
When Sonny dies, the choice, this is a screenwriter's choice, that Tom is the one to tell the Don.
The choice that the Don comforts Tom is,
and not the other way around.
Now, I don't know if that's screenwriting or if that's directing or if that's the actor, but it's brilliant.
It's absolutely brilliant.
For one thing, so I watched both of these with Carrie.
Can I tell you the story?
This is a good place to do it, yeah.
I first saw The Godfather, the first time I saw it was when it was on TV as, what was it called?
The Godfather Saga, the entire novel on screen or something.
Francis Ford Coppola put the two movies together.
He put them in chronological order.